The Bible and Critical Theory

Roland Boer, Rescuing the Bible: A response
Anne Elvey
The Bible and Critical Theory, Vol. 5, No. 2: 20.1-20.8.
http://publications.epress.monash.edu/doi/abs/10.2104/bc090020?ai=rs&ui=mim&af=T
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How the Bible can be red: Some thoughts on Roland Boer’s Rescuing the
Bible
George Aichele
The Bible and Critical Theory, Vol. 5, No. 2: 21.1-21.7.
http://publications.epress.monash.edu/doi/abs/10.2104/bc090021?ai=rs&ui=mim&af=T
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A religious left assessment of Roland Boer’s Rescuing the Bible
David Jobling
The Bible and Critical Theory, Vol. 5, [...]

Five Books That Have Most Influenced Me

Ok John (Ancient Hebrew Poetry) I take the challenge. Here are the  five books that have helped me and challenged my understanding of the Bible.

Jesus and the Victory of God by N.T. Wright. What can I say about this book? It forever changed my life and perception about the New Testament, Jesus and Judaism, and salvation history.
The [...]

Beauty, Portraits and their Meanings

In the article below I consider the concept of beauty and the meaning (s) associated with portrait painting, as commonly depicted in modern art portraiture. My starting  point is the Italian Renaissance . I argue that beauty like meaning is eschatological and objective. Beauty is  an unstable phenomenon, and a form of imaginative identity or identification.
Beauty, Portraits and [...]

Some Things I don’t Understand in the Bible

I could name many.
There are some “things” I just don’t get in the Bible. Sometimes they are metaphors, imagery, statements or commands.  A few examples are named below:
1. What does it mean to be “like” Christ?
2. What does it mean to “follow” Jesus?
3. The idea of imitating Jesus Christ, same as # 1
4.  What does [...]

Understanding Schleiermacher’s Hermeneutics

Friedrich Schleiermaacher (1768-1834) was a German philosopher, christian thelogian,  classical philologist and is known as the “Father” of liberalism in Protestant circle. Critics have often emphasized his contention that “religion is an intuitive feeling for and dependence on the infinite realm, not a set of moral or metaphysical principles; religion needed no external justification” (“The Norton [...]

Review: How To Do Things With Words by J.L. Austin

 

John  Langshaw Austin was a British philosopher with a special interest in  the philosophy of language. His  “How to do Things With Words” is his most influential work,  and perhaps the classic work on “speech acts” theory.   In this little book, a compilation of a series of lectures (the William James Lectures ) given at Harvard [...]